My stock answer is.... business people have no business talking about under the hood technical details. Any business person or manager that you are talking to about this has decided, for better or for worse, to take on an IT role (even if a cursory one). This is a technical concept and has no business explanation. Keep it technical.

@scottalanmiller said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

@Dashrender said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

@Jason said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

@alex.olynyk said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

Trying to promote Server 2008 when the domain and forest functional level is at Windows Server 2012R2.

Okay, this one should be obivious the functional level is at 2012R2.. therefore nothing older than 2012R2 can be a DC.

Make a new server 2012r2 VM as a DC. Do not try to lower functional level, this a bad idea.

I agree - don't try to lower the Functional Level. If you don't have the funds to buy a 2012 R2 server to run as a DC, check into running Linux as a DC in a Windows forest. It will be free.

I don't believe that Samba4 can support anything later than 2008R2 functional level, though. If it does, it's very new.

Oh - that sucks! I wonder what the hold up is? That's a whole 2 versions behind, and almost a third.

Well I figured it out in case anyone cares. The /etc/grub.conf wasn't being copied to the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. Not really sure why, but we have a password on grub so that might possibly be it. I didn't create this kickstart, so I'm not sure what post install junk is happening that might limit this also.

@Dashrender said in MDT 2012 - PowerShell error:

Does the path include access to PowerShell?

How would one verify?

Not sure on that one - it's after my time.

@dafyre said in Timeframe for ZeroTier on iOS:

It was in the big write up with all the price changes... http://mangolassi.it/topic/8928/zerotier-gui-updates-new-features-and-new-pricing-structure

It was just a quiet mention... Not even a bold or italics line. lol.

LOL - it was in the part that MLNews actually posted itself.

@mlnews

Along with our web UI and our subscription service, we have quite a bit more in the pipeline. Our iOS version is now in beta. If you want to try it out via TestFlight drop us an e-mail and we'll send you an invite. Major announcements on the Network Containers and Enterprise fronts are coming soon as well.

@Dashrender There is some licensing requirement but I don't remember if it is the Microsoft CAL or if a separate license is required by Polycom for the phone itself. If I get a chance today I'll look it up.

I'm very much a Linux noob, so I don't know what command to use. But I'd just use a regular expression alone or perhaps in combination with some other command to get the desired text here. In Powershell I would use the -match operator and/or the Select-String cmdlet.

Yeah, it's a terrible idea.
Fortunately, you can turn it off.

I think there was a thread about it a month or two ago.

@Sparkum said

Not gonna lie...understood like 3% of what you just wrote.

But hey, I guess thats kinda why I'm doing this stuff in the first place.

Welcome to my club!

@scottalanmiller said in Lazy question for normal task performed by lazy tech 😄 asseting assets:

If you use the right kinds of barcodes, an iPhone can see them natively. So can Android, of course.

Not nearly as accurate or as fast as a Bluetooth barcode scanner is.

Default install is using 32MB of RAM...

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@Lakshmana said in VMWare Connection Issue in Ubuntu 16.04???:

Whether NAP in Windows 10 blocks internet to the ubuntu 16.04

No, that is not a reasonable concern. It would block LAN access, too.

@scottalanmiller said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

@travisdh1 said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

@DustinB3403 said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

@JaredBusch said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

@DustinB3403 said in NFS and SMB Share from the same VM:

Linux can the follow up to this is how can I schedule WinSCP to sync the remote directory.

Why don't you just reverse that and push the changes out from the linux box to your windows 7 box?

How would I do that? (I haven't considered it, nor done this before)

Well, normally I'd assume the simple tools being used work, but PuTTY doesn't want to generate or properly do key based ssh authorization for some reason. Gotta be a simple setting some where we were both missing.

I'd call PuTTY the complex tool here. Takes a lot more work to manage than just using SMB.

I don't normally us it, but have it available. Hasn't played nice while trying to work with key-based auth, so it probably won't get installed anymore.

Would encryption work in your case? Each individual mac get's its backups encrypted.

@JaredBusch Yes they are static assign /29 IP's from the ISP.
In the draytek you specify the IP's you have and then use the NAT screen to open ports on each IP to a local IP on the network.

Just wanted to check a similar thing can be done with the EdgeRouter.

And yes I know the EdgeRouter has no modem, just want to check if Bridge mode would work or would I need to assign the Modem an IP and the others to the EdgeRouter.

@scottalanmiller said in OwnCloud and LibreOffice Online:

That's how my wife describes me.

lol

Missing my wife right now, how she would describe me made most people blush.

Long ago I had an article on this on my own blog but that is no longer up, so I am copying it here...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150221062029/http://www.scottalanmiller.com/linux/2012/09/02/improving-elastix-memory-usage/

The default installation of Elastix has more services running than are typically needed or desired on a PBX. These services eat far more memory that is necessary and can very easily be cleaned up to improve memory utilization.

First we will stop a series of unnecessary services from starting at boot time (this will disable shared storage, local email handling, new hardware detection, etc. so be aware that this does stop some things but any service that proves to be needed is trivial to re-enable.)

chkconfig nfslock off chkconfig cyrus-imapd off chkconfig iscsi off chkconfig iscsid off chkconfig netfs off chkconfig kudzu off

Further, if your system is like mine you likely use the web server very lightly but will find that the default configuration of Apache is set to spawn, by default, eight processes. This is far too many for a normal deployment. Each process uses memory. For an average deployment of Elastix, three is more than enough. You need only raise this number if web performance suffers. This will not impact telephony performance regardless.

In the file /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf we need to edit the section:

<IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 2 MinSpareServers 2 MaxSpareServers 8 ServerLimit 256 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 4000 </IfModule>

to something more like this:

<IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 3 MinSpareServers 2 MaxSpareServers 10 ServerLimit 256 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 4000 </IfModule>

You can wait for the system to reboot or restart Apache manually:

service httpd restart

And finally, to control swapping activity on the box, assuming that you want to avoid swapping when unnecessary, which I do because my box is virtualized, simply add this line on to /etc/sysctl.conf:

vm.swappiness = 10

You’ll want to test that number carefully. A setting of “10” is quite standard for virtualized systems. The default is “60”. For a physical deployment the higher value is likely better as it allows CentOS to make better decisions about how to utilize memory for maximum throughput. But on a virtualized system we really want to avoid, typically, any additional contention at the storage IO layer.
[Testing on Elastix 2.0 and 2.3]

And of course, sar -r

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